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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A vast region of eastern Europe and northern Asia controlled by the Mongols in the 1200s and 1300s. It extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean under the rule of Genghis Khan.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Tartarus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Tartarus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun archaic The Eurasian Steppe.
  • proper noun Obsolete form of Tartarus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries

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